The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-10-21

Before MIS-. Theresa Wall, of Sweet
water, Tenn, committed suicide she had
prepared a certified check that would meet
her funeral expenses and erect a monument
over her grave.
There has never been period in the
history of the American watch trade when
| the business was of such vast proportions As
| now All the larger factories that have run
| all summer, as well as those that shut down
| for a short interval, are behind orders at the
/ present time with the prospect Of the largest
! holiday trade demand ever known before
them.
! An Ogdenburg newspaper says that
some citizens have been annoyed by their
/ cows coming home at night without the
usual amount of milk. One light one of
their owners saw strange dog approach
one of the cows and rub against her legs.
The COW put her foot bacE, when the dog
sat upon his haunches and sucked her dry.
lie was as fat as a seal
! Contrary TO the popular impression.
| there is no statutory provision for the execU- /
tion of criminals on Friday. II seems that .
in very early times in the history af English /
jurisprudence il became common practice /
in selecting a day for the execution OF Grim
mails to choose Friday. This practice was
trRnsplanted to the American colonies and !
has been con:inaed until this day. 1t was
! probably originally founded on the super
stition that Friday was an unlucky day.
"A young gray squirrel found by party
, of children at IyOrytOn, Conn, was cared
for until it had grown large enough to help
itself when it was set at liberty, The chill
dren had no idea it would ever come back,
but the same night the squirrel came to the
window and tapped upon the pane. 1t was
4 admitted, and the next morning whisked
+, ! away again. 1t has built two nests, using
4 whichever It chooses in the night time, eX-
? cept when it rains. Then il always asks for
e admission TO the house.
The fishery business.of this country is
r very important interest. 1t employs $40 900
}, men and Sc, 90, 600 o: capital are invested.
9 The last reliable reports shows the total
e merchant tonnage OF the United States to be
y !, l3O, 600 tons Of which 1000, 900 tons are
foreign and 3,13O. .OO0 tons coastwise and il
n land. The total tonnage of vessels engaged
J in tie fisheries in 1883 was 127.4 .452. and in
e 1856 only 1O3, S43 tons. the total value of
IS our American fisheries at first hands is about
$1,000, coo a year, selling TO the consumer al
100 to 200 per cent. more than this.
: One of the richest mines of rock salt in
Is the world has been discovered in South
81 Hutchinson, Kansas. The salt was struck
le at depth of 40 feet and veins varying in
= thickness from TO 10 feet, separated by a
II thin strata of shale, were found. At a
s. depth of Cos feet a vein was struck which
IS up to Wednesday night, had been penetIat-
e ed to a depth Of b feet, without the dril
= reaching through. An official analysis OF
ID the product shows it TO be over 96 per cent
= pure, and absolutely free from the princi-
ID pal impurities which make rock salt unfit
y for domestic purposes.
e The bones Of the discovereT of America
'e are to be once more removed, as If they bad
n not yet earned rest. When Columbus died
II he first found a resting place at Valladolid.
81 Blu. il was not for long. In seven years hIs
1t remains were taken to Seville and in 1876
= across the ocean to Hayti where they were
! deposited in the Cathedral Of San Domingo.
= In 1895 il was thought to be high tiUe that
$ the bones OF Columbus were disturbed again,
II and they were taken to HaYana, in Cuba.
n Now, after further rest Of a hundred years.
Il q fresh tTansfer-let US hope the LASTS to
i be made. and Genoa, the navigatoT's birth
place, will finally claim its own.
e 1t has been calculated thatOn the aver
4 age each man who attaias the age of three
j. score and ten consumes during the course of
his lite twenty wagon-loads OF food, solid
: and liquid. At four tors to the wagon this
, would correspond to an average Of about Z
O hundred ounces of food per day, OF say
, some 120 ounces per day during adult life
. and about eighty ounces during infancy and
youth. Most modern doctors agree in re-
e garding 12O ounces of food per day, CORE
: spending TO five or six half pintS Of liquid
- food and seven or eight pounds Of solid
( food, as an excess of the real daily require
70 ments of a healthy man or woman.
10 There are at the present moment 4 to-
e tai of 9,3SS banking institutions in Tho
"a United States, an increase OF >, ,3O2, or 90 pei
cent, during she past ten years. OF these
2,045 are national banks, zoo State insti.
tutlons, 626 saving banks, and 3. g5l private
banking firms. The wonderful increase
during the past decade represents the
= growth Of the business Of the country
While the banking facilities of the country
. have increased so rapidly, it has neveTthe
IL less been on a safe and sound financial basis
There is more confidence in their soundness
and stability than there has been at any pre-
II viOus period. There are failures 1t is true
e and there always will be, but the losses tC
u the pubic have been far less in recent years
in proportion TO the value of business done
? than at any previous period of our history.
., AT negro camp meeting at HulsbOr-
p ough, H. the other day there was bit ol
S. realism tha: carries one back 10 the days O
10 the Passion Play. The preacher gave ar
eloquent discourse on the prodigal son
. During its delivery young darkey arrayeg
,f in picturesque and many colored Jatters Il
at represent the prodgaI son stood in a clumt
OF bushes waiting for his cue. 1t last tht
E. cue came in the shape of a powerful bias
on tin horn. when he rushed out and fel
. into the arms of the old preacher, who en-.
g acted the part of father. Then some sister
brouGh: forward a fatted calf which ha,
70 been previously killed and nicely roasted
= and every one began to be merry lust as i,
- the days of old. The story as related sound
somewhat sacriegOus. but it was enacte,
by the colO-ed brethren in entire good faitl
TO and without suspicion of flppancy.
y The Southern Pacific train which Ief
=. Ei Paso, Tex. at i:50 last Friday eyeniul
- returned three hours later with the mail ca
= badly knocked to pieces by a bomb and
" dead train Tobber on board. When the trafl
had reached point about four miles east O
D. FL PasO it was tagged, and the enginee
70 stopped the train immediately Three me,
nd